Apparatus for conducting a liquid to each of a plurality of trun

Details Apparatus for conducting a liquid to each of a plurality of trun Apparatus for conducting a liquid to each of a plurality of trun

1984-04-26

1986-09-30

Hafer, Robert A.

Plant husbandry

Frost preventing

A01G 1300

Patent

active

046140557

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for servicing trunked plants such as citrus trees in which water, in heated or unheated form, is delivered by a manifold system to the base of each tree, conducted upwardly in a hose helically upwardly encircling the tree to a collar encircling the tree at an intermediate location on the trunk, and discharged from a plurality of circumferentially spaced openings in the collar and allowed to flow by gravity back down the trunk. In unheated form, the water irrigates and nourishes the tree trunk. In heated form, the water warms the tree trunk and protects the tree trunk from frost damage. The heated tree trunk and heated water will also heat the air next to the tree trunk. This heated air will rise upward and outward to heat some major branches and foliage beyond the tree trunk area.

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